Got PageRank? Google's last update, many moons ago, hit a lot of people hard. A few days ago Google updated their system again and gave a lot of people PageRank love! Many of you may have noticed the PageRank change. Google's system update has resulted in an increase in PageRank for many sites - PureBlogic.com included! Overnight I went from zero to two in the PageRank garden of websites. What does this mean exactly? It means that a few people may have liked what I had to say in the past. Some of those people linked to PureBlogic.com and now Google recognizes me as a 2 out of 10.

Now what is PageRank exactly and why should you care about it? I’m going to quote Google’s very own description for you.

Google runs on a unique combination of advanced hardware and software. The speed you experience can be attributed in part to the efficiency of our search algorithm and partly to the thousands of low cost PC's we've networked together to create a superfast search engine.
The heart of our software is PageRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by our founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. And while we have dozens of engineers working to improve every aspect of Google on a daily basis, PageRank continues to play a central role in many of our web search tools.

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; for example, it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important." Using these and other factors, Google provides its views on pages' relative importance.

Of course, important pages mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond the number of times a term appears on a page and examines dozens of aspects of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to determine if it's a good match for your query.

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edward   | Tue, January 5,2010 1:05 am A discussion about creating a new metric for understanding blogs is something I think the community should have the chance to participate in to find a different way of perceiving a blog, or the ripples a blog makes. Partly I believe this because of the frustration people express about Google's secret algorithm for pagerank, where they feel something this powerful should not be secret (update: the algorithm is not secret but the ordering of the search results is secret according to the articles I found by rapidshare search ). And partly because I see that blogging is a opportunity for people to talk transparently, so why shouldn't the algorithm used to express our weight in the blogosphere also be open. Bloggers should have input about the importance of one social gesture over another, one metric over another, and know what it is that is included because it will be used to describe them. And also, I cannot assume that the ways I read blogs is the same as... Reply | Quote 0   0

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